Spinal muscular atrophy: The RNP connection

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 113-121

  Eggert, Christian ^a   Chari, Ashwin ^a   Laggerbauer, Bernhard ^a   Fischer, Utz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 PHENYLBUTYRIC ACID; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; INTERFERON; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RILUZOLE; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON PROTEIN; VALPROIC ACID;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPILEPSY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SOLID TUMOR; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALIA; LENTIVIRUS;

EID: 33644990213     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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